As The SELNEC Preservation Society had acquired three of the quorum
of the basic chassis/body combinations of Type ii - Park Royal Body/Daimler Fleetline
chassis with 7185, Type iii - Northern Counties Body/Leyland Atlantean chassis in EX1 and
Type iv - Northern Counties Body Daimler/Fleetline chassis in 7206, it just left Type i -
the Park Royal bodied Atlantean missing from the rank of The SELNEC Preservation Society's
range of vehicles.

It is true that this type of vehicle is represented by 7001, the
first production Standard, held by the Museum of Transport, but The SELNEC Preservation
Society felt that it might like its own version of this vehicle.

The first batch of Park Royal bodied Leyland Atlanteans being 145
vehicles were split three ways amongst the three Divisions, Central, Northern and Southern
as follows:

7001-7071 Central7072-7109 Northern7110-7145 Southern

Consequently, 7143 is the third to the last Southern Park Royal
bodied Atlantean.

The vehicle in question was left in the ownership of the PTE with
many other hundreds of other Standard vehicles at de-regulation on 26th October 1986 and
did not pass into the ownership of GM Buses Ltd. The PTE, after selling-off 559 surplus
double deck vehicles, kept 7143 themselves and it was, in fact, the last vehicle retained
by them from the 560 vehicles left with them at de-regulation. Rather than being sold,
however, it was used by the PTE as their publicity vehicle and it was also used to test
out various turning circles, bus stops' etc.

The SELNEC Preservation Society entered discussions with the PTE
and eventually purchased the vehicle, on 1st November 1991 and intend to return it to its
original SELNEC livery of sunglow orange/mancunian white, when it will represent a SELNEC
Standard displaying the Southern green flash.

7143

BATCH:

7110 - 7145
(Type i)

(XJA 534L)

BODY:

Park Royal
H43/32F - Mark 1

CHASSIS:

Leyland
Atlantean AN68/1R

FIRST REGISTERED:

8th January,
1973

PURCHASED:

1st November,
1991

DETAILS:

One of the
Southern Division batch of Park Royal bodied Leyland Atlantean Standards.